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...Part of the book's strength is its medium. The notion that comics are merely for children was buried long ago by Art Spiegelman's Maus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning work on the Holocaust, and its offspring, like Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde, one of the best books on the Bosnian war. Not only do those books discuss serious subjects, but the images hone the message. In North Korea, photographers are severely restricted, and journalists use their limited access to poke tentatively at big issues like nuclear weapons, famines and economic reform. But Delisle, through the simple...
...talk was one of several events on campus this week that seek to remember what scholars consider the first physical stigmatization of the Holocaust...
...Commemorations are a way to awaken us, work for memory and action, and try to make sure things like the Holocaust do not happen again," he said...
...Nuremberg Trials and encouraged analysis of the current state of genocide-related law. The piece combined a wide variety of inputs—including excerpts from music pieces, recorded speeches, and even live narration with a series of danced vignettes that loosely traced the history of genocide from the Holocaust to Rwanda to, literally, today’s news. Impassioned solos that explored large-scale rape, the search for forensic evidence of genocide, and the emotional experience of the judge who presided over the Nuremberg trials were subtle reminders of the range of personal experiences of those touched by genocide...
...BEST OF 1993 69 Taking stock of the year's triumphs and flops 70 Cinema: Romance under wraps in old New York 71 Television: Texas cheer, Depression gloom 72 Design: Memorializing the Holocaust, sublimely 74 Environment: Better times for owls, but not for whales 75 Science: Genes mapped, embryos cloned, Hubble rescued 76 Products: 3DO leads the way to the data highway 79 Books: The real J.F.K. and a Danish thriller 83 Theater: A brassy musical about prison torture 85 Music: Three Tonys who are tigers 86 Show Business: Howard and Rush heat up the airwaves 87 Sport: Memorable clashes...